On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 10 Jan 2009, at 19:41, Antony Blakey wrote: > >> In addition, if you name your databases "foo/bar" CouchDB will actually >>> create that as a structure on disk to avoid running into trouble with >>> filesystems that don't like a lot of files in a single directory. >>> >>> Setups with 1 million databases representing users have been tested >>> successfully. >>> >> >> Hmmm. The filesystem layout changes that I've proofed, and had accepted >> for incorporation, changes this. Filenames are munged to allow arbitrary >> characters, and so '/' is escaped. >> > > Would it be possible to keep the current behaviour or deal with the > issue of lots of files in a single directory in another way? > > Cheers > Jan > -- > I understand the need to escape everything, but would it be too difficult to split on '/' and and escape each part? This is the first I'm learning of this feature and I'm already missing it.
